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Technology in Future of TV-
All of us at least once in a lifetime have tried to invent something, whether for pleasure in everyday life or professionally as part of their job. But quite often, instead of creating a brand new experience, the majority of such initiatives were just based on the past state of things. So often we apply modern technology to our old ways of life. For example, first we were reading newspapers, then newly invented radio re-read those papers to us, and later the first TV channels were offering videos of speakers still reading news to us.
Now, if we dive deeper in the modern media industry, we can notice that it is changing significantly again: digitalization of papers, evolvement of streaming media, explosion of mass content creation, on-demand access to various content, etc. One could assume that it is a new self-sufficient chapter in our life. But in the long run, these are just small independent puzzles that we have tested — new technology that has proven to be efficient — that now will be merged into one medium. This is just the dawn of a new media era, and it is so important to utilize it to the fullest rather than just apply it to our past.
Television’s Past
The first working example of a fully electronic television receiver was demonstrated in Japan in 1926. That system employed a cathode ray tube (CRT) display with just 40-line resolution scan lines. Now try to compare this 40-line resolution to 4320 pixels (separate dots) of vertical resolution (forming the total image dimensions of 7680×4320). This will give you a rough but quite vivid comparison between the first TV and the current highest “ultra-high definition” television (UHDTV) resolution that is used in digital television and digital cinematography (8K UHD).
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Kenjiro Takayanagi transmitted the picture of a Japanese katakana character made up of 40 scan lines. Source: https://alchetron.com/Kenjiro-Takayanagi-1319028-W
A lack of available respective content is the reason why UHD TVs are mostly just cool tech rather than everyday devices in the living room. But with Netflix, Amazon, Vudu, and many other services offering now 4K streaming — and with Comcast, Sky, BT, Verizon, Virgin, etc. all ramping up 4K sports and movies that can be accessed on their platforms — that excuse is firmly vanishing.
Still, let’s be honest here — we are reaching a point when it’s hard or even impossible for a human eye to see the difference in resolutions. So most likely, manufactures will slightly shift their focus toward image quality (e.g., color scheme, black levels, etc.). For example, I am using the HDR feature on my phone to play with pictures while editing. It is a method of obtaining greater variance in contrast and color. This high dynamic range technology is becoming very important in modern TVs.